Great question! I have actually wondered the same thing, though from a different angle... What I am interested in is more along the lines of Disaster Recovery... What files need to be backed up prior to a Clean Install, that will result in little-to-no manual reconfiguring, once the Restore is complete. this is something that would need to be done after a System is compromised (been hacked). Is there a good Backup Program that keeps itself up-to-date on different Distributions (where they store all relevant config files, data files, etc), that will accomplish this? I have no qualms about paying for commercial software to accomplish this, as long as it works and is reliable. Thanks Charles

-----Original Message----- From: Robert Sweet [mailto:rsweet@socal.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 10:38 AM To: Suse English Mailinglist Subject: [SLE] Upgrade Strategy...6.4-7.1...

Any tips on upgrading a 6.4 box to 7.1? My plan is to back up /etc and /home and /root. The box has about 20 users. The box has a CDR-RW on it. I planned on using it to back the users up on it. I am concerned with /etc becuase of the changes in the init dir. I want to make that the users don't get passwd and such mucked up. Anyway any tips would greatly be appreciated, this is my first "commercial" set up and I have been doing it for free to get experience, the box has been up for a year now, routing two networks. tia. -- _ _ __ _____ _____ ___| |_ | '__| / __\ \ /\ / / _ \/ _ \ __| | | _ \__ \\ V V / __/ __/ |_ |_|(_) |___/ \_/\_/ \___|\___|\__| rsweet@socal.rr.com "unix soit qui mal y pense."